Chapter 545: The Two Kings Dispatched Troops
Southwest, Prince Cheng’s Mansion
Prince Cheng accepted the imperial court’s offer of amnesty, and Song Mo immediately fulfilled his promise and handed over the city and county that was promised to him. Then Lin Ran urged Prince Cheng to send troops.
Having just received benefits from others, Prince Cheng had to keep his promise and send 50,000 troops to encircle and suppress Xie Zhan together with the imperial court and Prince Jin.
He left 50,000 troops for himself.
“Prince, is there a trick?” Prince Cheng’s subordinates still felt that this was a bit unreal.
Dong Jichuan also said, “Prince, you must guard against the imperial court taking advantage of others’ misfortune.”
Prince Cheng said indifferently, “I have calculated that with the current strength of the imperial court, there is no force to take advantage of the situation.”
Bingzhou is in a critical situation. The imperial court is now pulling out all the troops to support Bingzhou.
If the imperial court and them encircle and suppress Xie Zhan, and still want to fight him and Prince Jin, Song Mo will have to watch the Sun family army being annihilated, unless he doesn’t even want Yanmen and Daijun.
Moreover, the 50,000 troops he sent out could also come back in time for support.
King Cheng thought, in short, Song Qian was not without plans in mind.
Dong Jichuan still suggested that King Cheng leave the elite troops. Although the agreement with the court required half of the troops to be sent out, there was room for maneuver.
They can work without exerting effort. As long as the number is 50,000, the court has no control over the quality.
But King Cheng is ambitious.
King Cheng thought that after defeating Xie Zhan, he would divide the South with King Jin.
King Cheng was very optimistic. It would be easy to capture Xie Zhan with an army of 200,000.
At that time, if the soldiers sent out were all for numbers, what would they do if they could not rob King Jin? You must know that there are rich and unsatisfactory counties in the three southern regions. If the fat meat is occupied by King Jin, he will suffer.
Dong Jichuan found that he couldn't persuade King Cheng, so he didn't force it. When they were learning physiognomy, they emphasized following the will of heaven. Anyway, he had said everything he should say.
When Dong Jichuan left, he accidentally found that King Cheng's forehead suddenly darkened. He was stunned for a moment, and then pretended to leave as if nothing had happened.
After returning to the mansion, Dong Jichuan was worried. After King Cheng started the rebellion, he couldn't see or calculate King Cheng's fortune because he had the qualities of a latent dragon overlord. Today, he suddenly found that his forehead was dark, which might not be a good thing.
At the same time, King Jin also sent troops under the urging of Xu Junfan.
Changle Palace
It was the Lantern Festival at this time. Song Mo accompanied the Queen Mother to listen to a play for a while. Not long after, the two moved to the flower hall, leaving the concubines to continue listening to the play.
As soon as she sat down, the Empress Dowager asked Song Mo, "Emperor, this time, after getting rid of Xie Zhan, it's time to get rid of Lu Songli, right?"
When the Empress Dowager thought of Lu Songli in the northeast, she felt like she had a lump in her throat, and she couldn't eat or sleep well all day. Sometimes she really wanted to go back to three years ago, when she didn't have to worry about anything and directly ordered Lu Songli to be beaten to death.
Now Lu Songli's existence seems to remind her all the time to laugh at how blind she was at the beginning.
At this time, the Empress Dowager took it for granted. When Lu Songli faced her in Changle Palace, even though she was very dissatisfied with her butt sitting on the side, when facing her, the Empress Dowager, Lu Songli was restrained and forbearing. All of Lu Songli's dissatisfaction was directed at Zhao Yutan. The Empress Dowager felt offended, but she couldn't catch Lu Songli's handle.
Song Mo heard this and paused with his hand holding the teacup, "Let's see about this."
He sneered in his heart, the Empress Dowager didn't know anything.
Song Mo was dissatisfied with his grandmother because he had planned to give two states to each of his two brothers and his grandmother acquiesced when he recruited them.
He knew at that time that his grandmother was not unacceptable for the land to fall into the name of his two brothers.
Maybe in her opinion, they were all her grandsons, and giving them four states was better than these places being occupied by outsiders, at least these lands were still surnamed Song.
But in Song Mo's opinion, his grandmother did not consider him at all.
Song Mo's answer made the Empress Dowager very dissatisfied. In her opinion, after getting rid of Xie Zhan, shouldn't the emperor pacify Pingzhou without stopping?
"This Lu Songli is simply a hen crowing in the morning. The Qin family and the Lu family are too unrefined. The emperor should conquer Pingzhou in the morning, otherwise the world's customs will be corrupted."
Song Mo looked at his grandmother, squinted his eyes, and thought about it. This sour tone, his grandmother would not be jealous of Lu Songli, right? She wouldn't have that idea, would she?
"Let's talk about it later." Song Mo knew his own business. It was already very good to be able to destroy King Jin and King Cheng in one fell swoop. The next plan still needed to see the timing.
The Empress Dowager was very dissatisfied when she heard this. She wanted to say something else, but her confidant Nanny secretly reminded her not to say anything more, so she could only hold back.
Pingzhou, Liaoxi County
Li Gang is a professional woodcutter. He can chop down two trees in the time it takes an ordinary person to chop down one tree.
Because of his good skills, he was officially promoted to a woodcutter last year and registered in the craftsman's workshop.
On this day, he was suddenly notified that he would go on a long trip tomorrow, so he was asked to go home and prepare.
When he went back and told his wife, his wife helped him pack his luggage neatly while holding her pregnant belly.
Just now, her husband said that they were going to take a boat to Zhuya Island this time, and couldn't help but say, "Why are we going so far this time?"
Zhuya Island is said to be in the southernmost part, and it can be said to be one south and one north of their Pingzhou.
"This is a last minute decision. We have to leave tomorrow."
Hearing that we have to leave tomorrow, the wife was shocked, "Why are you in such a hurry?"
"No way, this is the yamen's arrangement."
"How long will it take for us to go?"
"I heard it won't take long. I'll be back as soon as the work is done." The most important thing is that Zhuya Island does not belong to Pingzhou, so there is no way that loggers like them can stay here forever.
"Going so far, what can I do?"
"Don't worry, nothing will happen. I'm more worried about you. You are pregnant now. During the period when I am not at home, if something happens to you and you can't find anyone to help -" They are from Pingzhou, a couple who fled from the refugee camp. People’s elders are gone.
Before he could finish speaking, someone came to their yard.
The person who came was none other than Aunt Wang, the female officer of their village.
Aunt Wang also came over after receiving the notice. She told Li Gang and his wife that they should let him go out to work without worrying too much about his family. She would come to his house often to visit.
Li Gang was extremely grateful.
The next day, when Li Gang set out, Aunt Wang came again and saw him off with his wife.
It wasn't until the two of them could no longer see anyone that Aunt Wang supported Li Gang's wife and walked back.
Li Gang's wife was a little depressed, "It's been a mess lately. I don't know when it will end."
"Our Pingzhou is pretty good, it's chaos outside." Aunt Wang was very satisfied and advised her to be more open-minded.
"This is a chaotic world that kills a thousand swords!"